Diana Nicosia
Her landscapes are legendary. Her images and use of color, unforgettable. She captures the world in its most provocative moods with startling emotional power. Her burning curiosity is to explore spiritual beauty against the implacable undercurrent of universal turbulence.
Ms. Nicosia maintains studios in Boston and Gulf Stream, Florida. For twenty years she lived and painted in Tuscany. As an artist, she has realized significant distinction on the international scene, her work having been exhibited in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palm Beach, Washington, D.C., London, Sao Paulo, Kuwait City and Rome.
She was honored by the Trustees of Versailles to paint at Claude Monet’s Giverny and by the government of Kuwait to paint and exhibit her series “Tides of War: The Oil Fires of Kuwait”. She was invited to exhibit at The Gainsborough House in England and, at the behest of the Vatican, to paint in the private Papal Gardens.
Ms. Nicosia is the first artist to receive the Italian government’s Terzo Mellenio Award in recognition of her “Vatican Images” exhibition. She was invited to paint “the passionate drama of the evolving status of the jungle: by the Brazilian Ambassador to London, Paulo Tarso Flecha de Lima and the Smithsonian Institution, resulting in her acclaimed series depicting the violence and destruction against the Brazilian Rainforest which was exhibited in Sao Paulo, London, Washington, D.C., and New York.
Her landscapes and coastline Studies of the Mediterranean Sea capture the brilliant light and cobalt blue of the Cote d’Azure, Venice, Capri, Positano and Porto Fino. Her evocative New York City series of 2004 addressed traditional landmarks and icons of the city in a new era of reflection and discovery.
In 2005, Ms. Nicosia launched a delightful, change-of-pace series of paintings to celebrate The Legends of Baseball including Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio. These paintings have been well received and widely appreciated especially by aficionados of The Perfect Game. The majority of the proceeds of this series benefits charity.
The family of Sir Winston Churchill invited her to paint on the grounds of Chartwell, Sir Winston Churchill’s beloved country estate overlooking the Weald of Kent, which she will do in May 2007 with a Boston exhibit to follow in September.
Management, and Dr. Rita Venturelli, Director of the Italian Cultural
Institute at the Palm Beach gala celebrating the publication of the
Institute's catalogue "Diana Nicosia's Mystery without Words".
